Atypical development

Question 1

Gold standard and destinquishing delay

Answer 1

Clinical group, control group matched on age and control group on mental age.

Delay: Underperformance of clinical group compared to age, but not on mental age

Difference: Underperformance of clinical group compared to age group AND mental age

Question 2

Reason autism is increasing

Answer 2

More knowledge about it
Different diagnostic tools
Early identification
Assortative mating

Question 3

Genetics

Answer 3

Polygenetic
High heritability
Related to somatic dysfunctions.

Question 4

Premature saccades

Answer 4

Eye tracking response

Question 5

Theory of mind hypothesis

Answer 5

Children with autism perform poorly on ToM tasks. Can’t explain everything.

Question 6

Executive function hypothesis

Answer 6

Wisconsin card sorting test. Finding out what the rule is, trial and error. Sorting. When found, it changes. This is hard for people with autism

Problems with cognitive ability in executive functioning

Question 7

Central coherence hypothesis

Answer 7

Children with autism tend to have weak central coherence. Focus on small details. Seen in embedded figure test. They have an advantage. Hard to see coherent whole, see all details as seperate

Question 8

Longitudinal results on the three hypothesis

Answer 8

Executive functioning at measure 1 predicts ToM
ToM does not predict executive functioning

Central coherence predicts ToM
ToM does not predict central coherence

Tom does not predict any, but EF and CC predict ToM